The soft services provider has reinforced its commitment to creating inclusive and equitable employment pathways for disadvantaged groups by signing the 2024 Social Recruitment Covenant. Created by recruitment and training provider PeoplePlus, the Social Recruitment Covenant is a collaborative national programme, ...

Facility management solutions provider, Sovereign Commercial Services, has appointed Rachel Brutosky to the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Brutosky brings nearly two decades of experience in the industry, having spent 18 years at Nilfisk, Inc., where she held various sales ...

New research from commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE, projects 937MW of new supply in European markets in 2025. If this data centre supply is delivered, it will set a new record for Europe, representing an increase of ...

Sodexo UK & Ireland’s Schools business has been recognised as one of the country’s leading providers of healthy, sustainable school meals, in ProVeg UK’s first-ever School Contract Caterer Ranking. Sodexo secured second place, while its subsidiary Alliance in Partnership ranked ...

Global private investment firm, Bain Capital, has acquired Apleona from PAI Partners, a pre-eminent private equity firm. The investment was made by a consortium led by Bain Capital’s Private Equity team in Europe and will support Apleona’s continued growth and ...

Acorn Safety Services has been appointed by a multi-academy education company in the Midlands to protect its school communities from fire risk. The Northampton-based health and safety consultancy will carry out fire risk assessments in all of Our Lady of ...

ISS has won a contract with Aroundtown for the provision of integrated facilities services across the real estate company’s locations in Germany. As part of this deal, ISS Germany will provide cleaning, building technology, security, landscaping, and winter services at ...

OCS in partnership with Morrisons will introduce innovative cobotic cleaning technology across the supermarket chain’s logistics sites. Building on an eight-year relationship, OCS services Morrisons stores, all eight logistics sites, and two manufacturing sites. OCS sought to advance its relationship ...

WORKTECH, the pioneering event series shaping the future of work, announces the return of Smart Technologies25 London, a conference dedicated to exploring the next generation of intelligent buildings and workspaces. The event will take place on Tuesday, 25th March 2025, ...

A new programme to tackle a shortage of trainers and assessors has been launched by the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA). Following a detailed study of the sector’s skills requirements, the Association believes the “critically low” number of trainers and ...